Improvement in devices for gathering grain into gavels



UNITED STA'rEs PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DBVICES FOR GATHERING GRAIN INTO GAVELS.

Npcei/i'onlion,lbrmin/ part of Letters lftatcnt N 22,682, detal January IS, 1852.

T0 (dl rwhom it amy eoaccra:

e it known that I, NV. N. \\"AGGONER, of 1\"liddletown,in the county ot' l lenry and State of: Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Device for Gathering' (hit Hrain into (avels for Binding'; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exaet description ot' the same, reference being' had to the annexed drawiugs, making;` a part`ot` this specification, in which- Figura l is a longitudinal Vertical section ot' my invention, taken in the line .r .r, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view ot' the same.

Similar letters ot' relerenee indieate eorrev sponding parts in the two tigures.

This inveution consists in having stationary and adjustablc tingers attached to a framework mounted on wheels and provided with handles, the parts being' so arranged, as hereinal'ter fully shown and described, that an operator may shove the device along and underneath a windrow ot' grain and gather the same into gavels, and hind each gavel into a shcaf, the work being formed with great Facility and ver v`v expeditiously.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construet my invention, l will proceed to describc it.

A A represent two handles, formed of woodeu bars, eurved at their outer ends similar to plow-handles. Through the lower or inner ends ot' these handles an axle, B, passes, having a traction-wheel, (J, at each end. To each handle A, at their lower or inner parts, two stanehions, rt of, are attached at right angles, and to the inner end of each haudlo a curved bar, l), is attaehed, the form of which is shown plainly in Fig. 1. To the upper end of each stanchion a the back end of a finger, I'J, is attaehed. These tingers are ot' curred form, and taper gradually from their back to their 'front ends. The lower parts of the stanchions a' are connected by a traverse-bar, F, and to this bar two stanehions, a a, are attached at right ang-les.

To the upper part ot' each stanchion a a ourved finger, Gr, is attachcd, and the back ends of these fingers are also attached to the fingcrs E by rods w. The fing'ers G are attaehed to the stanehions a by rods I), which pass through said stanehions, and also through the upper parts of the stanchions a' af' and the fingers E E. (See Fig. 2. Through the axle two curved rods, e e, pass, the lower ends of said rods having sm'ew-tln'eads formed ou then), and provided with. nuts d. The upper ends ot' these rods are attached to the baek cnds of the tingers (l G.

Between the stanehions n'a rods or shatls c are placed, and on each rod or shaft a tinger, l'l, is placed, said fingers being' allowed to rise and fall, or work on their rods or shal'ts e. The back ends ot' the fingers ll are connected by links 7' to a crank-shaft, I, which passes through the inner parts of the handles A. A, and has a erank, (j, at one end, said crank having an arm, lz, attaehed to it, whieh arm is vlltted in guides attaehed to one ot' the haudles A.

To the axle B, at about its center, a cnrved rod or bar, t, is attached, which rod or bar serves as a stop to the (smak-shall; I. (See more particularly Fi g. 1.) the tlngers E shoes a are attaehed, one to each. (See Fig. 1.)

The operation is as follows: The operator grasps the handles A A and shoves the device along', the tingers 1*] G .ll passing underneath the windrow and gathering' up the grain, the device being su liieiently wide to extend across the windrow. When a suflieient quantity ot' grain is colleeted ou the ting'ers, the operator stops and draws out ward the arm h, which thereb)` actuates the erank-shat't l, and in consequence ot' the fingers H H being; connected to said shaft by the links f f, the tingers I will be quickly raised to the position shown in Fig. 1, and the grain on the tingers will be `ejathered in a compact form between the fing'ers H and the enrved bars l) l).

Then the grain is thus gathered, the operator releases the handles A A, and the. weight ot' the gavel between the tiugers Ilf and the bars I) will cause the outer ends of the handles A to fall to the ground. The operator then passes the band around the gavel, between the tlngers G G, seeures the ends ol' the band together, and the sheat' is thrown from the device. The ting'ers VH H are then, by actnating the arm li, depressed to their original position, the handles A raised by the operator, who again shoves the device forward to gather a sueceeding gavel.

I would remark that the ing'ers G G may To the ourer end of bo :ulinsted highei` or lower, :is the operator nmy dcsire1 by turning the nuts'l d, and the ling'ers E 1G inny be edjusted by moving the holt (1*, which eonneets the back ends of the lingers 1*] to the stzinohions (i. l would also i'vimn'k tlizit Ithe bzu' h is retained in position :it either :ulinstinent by pins c`^' ex, nttnehed to the hnndles, and whieh lit in notehes in the bzu:

By this invention grnin inny be readily eolleeted into govels and bonnd, the work being done with 'nr greater fneility than it emi be done by the old praetiee of taking it into gav' els by hand.

Moving the?I deserihed my invcntion, what I elaini us new, und (lesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The stetionary fingers E E (l G :md the lly or gathering fingers 'li' H, ettoched to a suitable frmning or stanehions, nionnted on Wheels and ermng'ed to operate snbstantinlly ns und l`or the Purpose Set l'orth.

7. M. WAHUONIGH.

Witnesses:

FRED. HOOVER, M. M. MURPHEY. 

